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In article <1992Jul21.014255.22110@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au> keulen@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Michael VanKeulen) writes:
>Hi!
>
>Yes, I would be interested in such a course - unfortunately in a participatory
>role only.  I have no Russian or Esperanto so far - would that be a problem, or
>would Esperanto only be an aid to learning?
>
>Thanks,
>		Mike
>

I do not envisage it as being a problem.

For example, all Esperanto verbs are regular. That is it.

Consider the present tense of any verb, e.g. sidi, to sit.

Mi sidas    I sit
Vi sidas    You sit
Li sidas    He sits

Ni sidas    We sit
Vi sidas    You sit
Ili sidas   They sit

Now, the English has sits in the 3rd person singular but sit everywhere
else.

Many natural languages have patterns of endings, several different patterns
and then irregularities, like, for example, in French where the first
person plural of manger, to eat, has nous mangeons rather than nous mangons
which would be the pattern if it were a strictly regular -er verb.

So, I envisage the Esperanto as a way of explaining grammar, for example,
subordinate clauses and the like, so that a perfectly regular way of
doing it would be set out using Esperanto, then the Russian way, whether
that is regular or not or differently structured or whatever would be
compared and contrasted with the Esperanto.

Certainly, some concepts, (such as gender of nouns, where for
example, in French, a window is feminine), are just not explainable using
Esperanto, apart from saying that Esperanto does not have the concept.
For example, the Esperanto word for the word the is always la,
(though I think it can be l' before a vowel if desired in poetry , &c),
whereas a longer time needs to be taken in French to explain le, la, les, l'
and when they are used. It is also necessary to learn the gender of each noun
separately.

So, that is two of us already wishing to participate.

Will